The modeling industry sets up camp at the crossroads of youth & beauty and age & wealth — and moreover, it's an arena where those qualities cleave to the most predictable gender and power divide. »12/30/08 2:00pm 12/30/08 2:00pm

The new issue of Cosmo is here! And before we delved into what promises to be a riveting interview with Scarlett Johansson, we sated our thirst for "Conversation Starters," the monthly feature in which Cosmo editors offer up little tidbits of trivia that promise to "make you the most interesting person in the room -… »7/02/08 5:00pm 7/02/08 5:00pm

Here's a familiar familial tale! Remember the one about the woman who's fast asleep in her room when suddenly a man she thinks is her husband comes in and they have sex only to at some later point realize that it was actually her husband's perverted brother? Yes, Dear Abby got a query about this a few weeks back, and… »5/05/08 5:00pm 5/05/08 5:00pm

The most commonly used statistics about sexual assault and American college women show that 25% of female college students will be sexually assaulted; U.C. Davis professor of communication Michael Motley believes that at least some unwanted sexual contact is due to misunderstanding on the part of men — which he calls… »4/24/08 9:30am 4/24/08 9:30am

Hey, look at the T-shirt! It says "No Means No (Well, maybe if I'm drunk.)" Is this an overly, like, Jezebel thing to write a post about? Whatever! It's Friday! Okay, sooooo, "No means no." See the period? Affirmative? Good. After a few drinks and maybe a blow job, you can add another sentence. Such as: "Oh who am I… »2/29/08 12:00pm 2/29/08 12:00pm

Heather MacDonald, a fellow at the conservative think tank the Manhattan Institute, had an essay in yesterday's Los Angeles Times railing against the "phony" rape epidemic on America's college campuses. MacDonald claims that the statistic used by many university rape crisis centers — 20-25% of college women will be… »2/25/08 1:00pm 2/25/08 1:00pm

Blood-boiling-yet-fascinating college rape vigilante justice story time! This time our campus is Monica Lewinsky alma mater Lewis & Clark in Portland, Oregon and the alleged rapist a charismatic aspiring actor and a cappella singer named Morgan "Morgazm" Shaw-Fox. (Words used by various female students to describe… »1/14/08 4:00pm 1/14/08 4:00pm

The greater The Manchester, England police department launched two date rape awareness ads yesterday, hoping to show that "sexual assaults often take place between newly-made acquaintances or with people who know each other and often when they've had a drink." While the intent is admirable, the actual commercials… »11/27/07 4:00pm 11/27/07 4:00pm

The Big Brother Africa house played host to a castmate-on-castmate rape, and they're airing it on TV. This is, to say the least, a controversy. It starts with the fact that the assailant, a 24-year-old married Tanzanian film student named Richard Bezuidenhout, did not use his penis but his finger to penetrate his… »11/01/07 6:30pm 11/01/07 6:30pm

We weren't the only ones who attendedCosmo's gray rape panel yesterday. Sewell Chan, the thorough and prolific NY Times boy wonder, included an awesome quote from anti-violence activist Joe Samalin: "There were a lot of things in the [gray rape] article that concerned and frustrated me," [Samalin] said. He said that… »10/16/07 1:45pm 10/16/07 1:45pm

Prolific Match.com rapist Jeffrey Marsalis was sentenced last Friday on the offenses the Philadelphia jury charged him with since they lacked the balls or sanity or whatever to stick him him with rape. And though most rapists who get away with it aren't suspected of raping over a hundred girls, going easy on sex… »10/15/07 2:30pm 10/15/07 2:30pm

Language is a powerful thing. Like: when the Zionists first began settling in the holy city I just visited they named their newspaper the "Palestine Post", after the same group of people who would eventually gain fame for producing the deluded group of destructive (and yes, murderous) radicals Fox News would… »8/28/07 4:00pm 8/28/07 4:00pm

True story that I wrote in three minutes because that's exactly how much time I felt like dwelling on it: this one time about nine years ago I got locked out of my house and went home with some vaguely smarmy hair-product using type from my ex-boyfriend's frat. I had slept with maybe two or three guys prior to that —… »8/27/07 3:00pm 8/27/07 3:00pm